SheFoundAh Idea On A Koa vii SOME of the many articles Mrs. Peggy Fair and Mrs. Mar- gery Perry decorate with shells. At right: MRS. FAIR and MRS. PERRY in their work- room. OUTING on thc beach last New Year's Eve wish ^ tag she had a "really chunky" necklace to wear that night to a party with a new brightly coloured cotton dress from Honolulu, Mrs. Peggy Fair had an idea which has since absorbed all her time and energies. The idea? . . . To make thc necklace from some of the "mandarin hat" shells lying on the beach beside her. , "You should have seen it," she says now. "Il was terrible! 1 made holes in the shells with a red-hot needle and threaded them on to a piece of raffia. Friends at the party admired it. I made similar ones for them and soon I was thinking of com- mercialising the idea. . "Now I think of nothing but shells. My house is shocking-there are strands of raffia and shells by the thousands everywhere." Mrs. Margery Perry, who manages the business side of the venture,...

TO-DAY'S LIVING A Hexagon As Centre Of A House HEXAGON HALL, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Chisholm, in Shinfield Ave., ct Ives was designed by architect Thomas D. Esplin t'o an unusual plan-with the three wings of the house centring on a hexagon shaped ball. From (he outside, t! pink washed walls, bli tiled roof and eaves at attractive colour to thc surroundings of more thi three-quarlers of ah ac of garden and trees. The blue-framed gla door is set into a recessc porch which has a trinnguh shaped roof section above i rising to the lop of the it terior hexagon. The architect's reasons fe the unusual spreading shap of the house are that he wa presented with a large sit with no restrictions 01 shape, and that he wanted t( get as much light and eros; ventilation into all the room: as possible. Ventilation Therefore, each room is the width of the house, and bas two or three outside walls, with cross ventilation by windows, mostly placed opposite each other. Foundation cosls were sav...

12-YEAR-OLD REGISTERED The A J.C. has taken j unusual action in per- mitting the registration of a 12-year-old race- horse. The horse, Baybury, was registered for the first time on July 31 - the day before he turned 12. He will race in the interests of an owner in the Queensland'gulf country. Registrar of Race- horses, Mr. G. W. Lil- ley, said normally he would refuse to register such an old horse.

Plan For Talks On Leave CANBERRA, Sat- urday, Mr. Bruce Kekwick, M.P., to-day advocated an Austra- lia-wide long service leave system for private enterprise. Mr. Kekwick (Lib., Tas.) is chairman of the Common- wealth Government Indus trial Relations Committee. He said employers should show their good faith by calling an Australia-wide conference to establish an appropriate leave system. Employers could do a lot more towards bringing about better industrial relations. ! One "very worthwhile step" would be for private i enterprise to _ grant long i service leave similar to that given under various Public Service awards. "AU Too Few" "Some major firms have already embarked upon a substantive system of long service leave for their em- ployees, but they are all too few," he said. "Long service is some- thing in itself which should carry some reward." Mr. Kekwick said it would encourage greater stability in employment if employees knew that they would be able to qualify for long-service l...

Rumours Annoy Palace NEW YORK, Sat- urday (A.A.P.). - Buckingham Palace officials expressed extreme annoyance to-day at persistent rumours from Europe that Princess Margaret would soon retire to a convent, states the Palace correspondent of United Press. The correspondent points out that, like all the Royal Family, the Princess belongs to and regularly attends the Church of Eng- land. Palace - officials had con- cluded that the false rumours probably sprang from the fact that she had attended several church ser- vices during recent public engagements. Tenderness "Friends say that any one who doubts whether Princess Margaret would appreciate thc joys of marriage and in due course motherhood, should sec her carrying out some engagements where children are involved," the correspondent adds. "Opening-a block of Lon- don apartments recently, the Princess's face Was a study of gentle tenderness as she chatted gaily with a four year-old girl who presented her with a bouquet.

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Red Cross Welfare Activities The Red Cross Welfare Department last year gave financial help to 3,600 families of ex-service- men in N.S.W. The supervisor of the Welfare Department, Miss D. Davis, said last week that this was one of the least known activities of the Red Cross, and cost £20,000 a year. "Since the war we have helped an average of 3,000 families and wives a year," Miss Davis said. Hardships "Each case is treated sep- arately and confidentially." Servicemen whose mental illnesses were not caused by war were admitted to public mental hospitals instead of Repatriation hospitals, said Miss Davis. They suffered financial hardship because social ser- vice benefits ceased when they entered public hos- pitals.

Melbourne Chatter yi7HAT a fabulous start to Cup Week with " v the Derby Eve ball, held this year at the home of Mr. and Mrs. lau Miller, at Malvern, instead of as usual ut Earl's Court, where square (lancing is now more profitable than the glamour dance of the year . . . Thc complete bun-rush from carly beginning-7 p.m. for cocktails-to late end (grey cold dawn and the races only five hours oil), where 700 guests (who hud paid .£10 a double ticket to go to thc Vic- torian Society for thc Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children) trod on cacti athcr's (railing skirts; where thc hostess, Mrs. Miller, who is ball president, siart ed thc evening in a dress of blue organdie with :in enormous skirt and (wo huge white orchids, and within two hours changed into a short, strapless dress of white linen embroidered in gold, replacing thc or chills with diamonds and pearls ... "I could move," she explained . . . Where thc flowers were superb-huge bowls of iris, lilac and roses . . . and there was s...

M v Hero Ousts Hydrogen As Cup Favourite! . CHANCES OF BEATEN HORSES APPEAR SUM MELBOURNE, Saturday. - My Hero became outright favourite for the Mel- bourne Cup to-day after his win in the Hotham, Handicap. Hydrogen, who won the L. K. S. Mackinnon Stakes in effortless style, was ousted from his ~ position>at the head of quotations. In the latest market, My Hero's price' is half a point shorter than that about Hydrogen. On to-day's racing, Hydro- gen should beat ail who fin- ished behind him in the L. K. S. Mackinnon Stakes (lim, w.f.a.). Similarly, My Hero should beat those who were behind him at the end of the Hotham Handicap. My Hero will meet a majority of (hose can- didates at a weight dis- advantage, although he will drop from 9-4 to-day to 9-0 in Tuesday's Cup. q titnznt;;o shrdlu sh shhh The 9-0 include his 81b, penalty for his success in the Caulfield Cup on October 17. Success for My Hero, a New Zealander, in the Mel- bourne Cup would make him the fourth horse to complet...

The Rejected Weapon New British Rifle Will Be Scrapped! From Our Staff Correspondent LONDON Sat.-Britain, it is understood, i «¡il scrap the .280 rifle which her experts had . hailed as the most brilliant piece of small arms \ ever assembled. Britain is believed ¡ have given away to Ame fica after three years ( 1 argument and agreed I I produce a rifle of the .30 ¡calibre now used by th j U.S. (orces. I This will probably lead t Ithe .300 becoming the stan Idard for rifles and ligh Sniachine-guns in the wholi lof thc North Atlantic Treat) Iforces and perhaps through gout the British Common Iwealth. I A switch to .300 would íímean changes in barrel, ifbore, magazine, and cham %'ber but the mechanism of thc .280 could be adapted, ;¡to thc new rifle. I The prime reason for Britain's objection to the U.S. model was tactical. The Americans favour a weapon with killing power up to 1,000 or 1,200 yards, and they can afford to mass-pro- duce the bigger equipment that this entails. The .280 ...

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Charge By Teachers' President 5,000 PUPILS WILL BE REFUSED ENTRY) The president of the Teachers* I Federation, Mr. H. F. Heath, estimated recently that at least 5,000 five-year olds would be turned away when State schools resume after the Christmas vacation. A federation survey covering 60 per cent, of large primary schools in the State shows that 2,475 children, aged between five and six, were refused admission this year. Mr. Heath said, "The schools try to enrol every five-year-old coming along. Often they put them on their waiting lists. Ma ny I stay on lists for thc whole year." I 60 In One Class In New South Wale; the law compels ever} child who has reached the age of six to attend school. Mr. Heath said that the survey was not complete bul reports to date showed thal overcrowding was reaching "frightening" proportions. "Makeshift class - rooms and inadequate and deplor- able drinking, washing and sanitary facilities are the lot of thousands of young child- ren for six hours a ...

First Sydney Win For Young Rider - Craigavon's success in the Collaroy. Handicap at Randwick yesterday gave bookmakers a "skinner" and midget apprentice Bill Toohey his first Sydney win. Starting at '25-1, Craig7 avon beat All Jeep (11-2) by a length, with Corral (8-1) a neck away third. The 16-year-old Toohey is one of the smallest riders ever to have won a race at Randwick. He is 4ft Hin tall and .weighs slightly less than 6st. Toohey went on to win the next event, the Second Deewhy Graduation, on the 6-4 favourite Hans, He has had plenty of ex- perience on Craigavon, win- ning two consecutive 9i fur- long events at Gosford on him on August 25 and Sep-, tember 15. | Toohey again rode the gelding when he- finished third to Dark Fife and Buthus in a.Rosehill Gradu- ation Stakes four days later. Craigavon's defeat at Gosford at his only sub- sequent start caused most punters to discard him yes-. terday, when he met stronger company. . Only wager of note won on Craigavon was £1,000 to...

Mam Ena Thc fl'BBlíflic Eye SHIPPING CLERK TO THEOLOGIAN . rT,HE Soviet Embassy at Addis Ababa, the small- town capital of Abyssinia, retains a personnel of 800 roughly 40 limes that of Can- berra. (Reason? It could be that it acts as an intelligence service for the whole of Africa-including, of course, Kenya and thc Mau Mau.) . There is only one Church of England church in Scotland -as distinct from the Episco- pal Church of Scotland. It is St. Silas's, Glasgow. . Ravu Henao is probably thc only Papuan boy who can claim thc distinction of having had a complete publication devoted to him. THESE unrelated "Did You Know . . .?" items are not picked out with a pin from the pages of Whitaker's Almanack. They are just typical of the- il- luminating snippets that arise during conversation with Canon Marcus Loane. Canon Loane is the newly ap- pointed successor to Archdeacon Hammond, who retires as prjn cipal of Moore Theological Col- lege at the end of the year. And he upsets all preconcei...

"Raffles" Fur Haul At Ball MELBOURNE, Satur-1 day.-Down the staircase of a Malvern mansion last night sauntered a man in evening dress, with several fur coats on his arm. "Somebody's asked him to bring them down,',' thought the Derby eve ball guests who noticed him. He strolled on, through the garden where music floated from a dance mar- quee, and out into thc night. About 2 a.m.' to-day it was discovered that £1,000 worth of furs had been stolen. Cool Nerve Lady Gullett and Mrs. lan Miller-held the ball at Mrs. Miller's home in Glenferrie Road. Four hundred atten- ded to aid the Victorian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Police, searching for the gentleman thief, said he must be a cool criminal. He passed two hired commis- sionaires posted at the gates and mingled with the guests until he had a chance to gel to the upstairs bedroon where furs and bags nae been left.